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On Friday 3rd February Maple Class headed to the Space Centre in Preston. we had a fantastic time with our friends, accessing the swing for vestibular input, the fibre optics for visual and tactile stimulation and the responsive flooring which gave audio and visual feedback when pressed. We had a…

I visited Maple Class on 17th January as part of the Governor- Class partnership and Religious Education Week. I spent time with the wonderful learners and hard working staff in Maple as they explored the Islamic Faith. Myself,  Mrs Smith and a small group of learners made delicious sweets…

Maple Class have had a fantastic week exploring the Islamic Faith through Attention Autism, dress up, creative work, cooking and music. We have tasted traditional foods and made sweets eaten at Eid using our fabulous communication skills to make requests, follow instructions and take turns. We…

Maple Class have started their new Spring topic - Emergency, Emergency! where we will look at all the very important people who help us. This week we have focussed on the special jobs that fire fighters do. We have explored this through Attention Autism, fine motor skills,  sensory exploration,…

Maple Class have been been springing into action today exploring different equipment to regulate our bodies. We’ve been coordinating our bodies to climb on different levels of apparatus, balance along the benches and jump landing with both feet at the same time! We’ve been passing the balls in…

Yesterday, during our special breakfast, Maple Class had a visit from Santa. We had lots of nice food including brioche, jam and chocolate spread on toast, crackers and even cake! 
Once Santa arrived we were very excited- he even brought us all a present each.
Later on in the day a few of us…

On Friday 2nd December and Friday 9th December, we welcomed parents to join us for the morning to share in our Christmas crafts and see how we learn Maple Class.  Firstly we enjoyed Attention Autism Stages 1,2 and 3 where we created a Christmas Tree decorated with coloured confetti then during…

Today Maple Class celebrated their Class Christmas Party! This morning we enjoyed a festive themed sensory circuit in the Hall and Attention Autism. At lunch we had party food and snacks and during the afternoon we played pass the parcel, pin the star on the Christmas Tree and enjoyed our…

On Tuesday Maple Class went to Brew and Buddies with our friends from Rowan Class for our end of term trip. We enjoyed lots of soft play, racing our friends on the slides, cause and effect toys and climbing! We loved being with our friends and it was great to be back together again!

Thanks to…

Maple class been enjoying The Rainbow Fish sensory story as part of our learning for Friendship Week! We explored how when the Rainbow Fish shared his beautiful shiny scales with his friends he was happy. We have been using our fabulous communication skills to create wonderful Rainbow Fish…

Today Maple Class took part in Remembrance Day activities through Attention Autism and through creativity. We watched Miss flour sieve to reveal small crosses in the tuff tray and then sprinkle green glitter to represent Flander’s Field and we took turns in Stage 3 to sprinkle red tissue paper to…

Happy Halloween and Bonfire Night from Maple Class!

What a fabulous week we’ve had in Maple Class. On Monday Maple Class enjoyed a day filled with dress up, using our fine motor skills to make spooky spider webs, pumpkin sun catchers and a Halloween hunt in the Woods using our wonderful…